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Facebook and youtube would crumble completely without ads. That’s where the real money is.
Is the shotgun approach not useful? Every post has to contain “Ad” or “sponsored”, could you not exclude every post that has those words?
I am an idiot speak slowly.
From the article
The same post talks about some of Facebook’s tactics for bypassing the adblockers. A user in the thread described trying to use uBlock’s element picker to block the word “Sponsored” on ads, only to find Facebook splits the word into individual letters, each wrapped in its own line of code. A member of the uBO development team confirmed this isn’t new, and that the technique has been in use for roughly five years. They also added that Facebook has at times gone further by randomizing letter order and inserting fake characters to throw off pattern-matching filters.
Facebook splits the text “Ad” in the code so you have an “A” and “d” defined separately and then through some magic make them appear together when rendered… and then they change the exact locations and naming frequently.
That’s why I block facebook entirely with DNS based blocking.
They just randomize the DOM. Which is a pretty terrible thing to do. So I can completely understand why they stop blocking ads on that terrible site.
uBlock Origin really needs to find a way to define content-based rules for sites which use DOM randomization. After all, the ads still have places where they can go and ad content is structurally always very different from actual content.
If they let Facebook win, YouTube will do it next. And a year later, uBlock Origin will have stopped working on half the web.“They” don’t use Facebook anyway and all the people using their free labor acting as through they are paying customers finally got to them. I’m with the uBlock guys on dropping Facebook when it’s such thankless painful work
I found a trick to block Facebook ads without an extension…
echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" >> /etc/hostsFor a hosts file, shouldn’t that be 0.0.0.0?
They both work.
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Me too, I quit 15 years ago.
I never joined in the first place…
I am sure there are dozens of us!
At least
Assuming that there isn’t a better extension out there for people to switch to, this move might push some people into quitting Facebook completely.
If you’re using uBlock origin, then you won’t see ads anywhere else. Meanwhile on Facebook, every few posts will be an ad.
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Bots hate this one simple trick!
That stinks. Today is Facebook. Tomorrow it’s a site you use. I guess that means I’ll have to figure out how to block this shit elsewhere.
Oh, it’s rather simple actually.
I have Facebook, Meta, and all their various domains blacklisted on my PiHole.
When other corps see that Facebook ads are unblockable they will copy the mechanism and uBlock Origin will become useless.
Similarly, using a dnscrypt domain filter:
I thought the story was that they aren’t individually hard to block, they just keep doing the same thing ublock was doing and directly countering the changes
My guess would be almost all routinely updated Filterlists will continue to block Facebook ads, and probably even more relentlessly now.
In my rich fantasy life, this announcement is just a ruse, to get Facebook to drop its guard.
Real life is never as good as my rich fantasy life though.
I thought I read a post on here earlier today that said that ublock will continue to block facerook ads?
